How Can I Survive The Financial Crisis?

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• Mark Plotkin

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  President, Amazon Conservation Team

  Dr. Mark J. Plotkin has led the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) since 1996, when he co-founded the organization with Liliana Madrigal. He is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent three decades studying traditional plant use with traditional healers of tropical America.Among his many influential writings, Dr. Plotkin may be best known for his popular work Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice (1994), which has been printed continuously and in multiple languages. His most recent book, The Amazon – What Everyone Needs to Know, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.Dr. Plotkin has received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation, the Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award, and, with Liliana Madrigal, the Skoll Award. In 2010, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Lewis and Clark College. Dr. Plotkin was educated at Harvard, Yale and Tufts University. His ongoing podcast Plants of the Gods is available on Apple Podcasts and other platforms.

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• Namrita Kapur

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  Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation

  Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises on the philanthropy of founders of one of the oldest VC firms and of a Fortune 500 company. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised National Geographic on its impact investing strategy. Namrita is also an angel investor in the Portfolia fund of funds, which focuses on educating and activating female angel investors. She serves on the Boards of Environmental League of Massachusetts, Center for Business & Environment at Yale, IE-Brown Executive MBA Program, Massachusetts Environmental Justice Council and the Museum of Science. She holds two degrees from Yale and one from Princeton.

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• Jim Fruchterman

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  Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters, Benetech

  Jim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech. After starting two successful machine learning companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses. His current nonprofit projects at Tech Matters include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field, and Terraso, a platform to bring better tools and more funding to locally-led sustainability initiatives to respond to climate change.

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• David Bornstein

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  Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network

  David is CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), which is leading a global movement to transform journalism, anchored by a focus on spreading knowledge through rigorous reporting about potential or demonstrated solutions to global problems. SJN has directly engaged with > 650 news organizations and 47,000 journalists and now has hundreds of training partners in 50 countries. As a journalist, David examined social innovation efforts for three decades. He created and co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times, which ran for 11 years and published over 600 articles about social innovators. He is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.

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